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After Liberation Day: Who is footing the tariffs bill?
Mar 29, 2026For nearly 12 months, a raft of import duties - tariffs - have made it much more expensive to ship consumer goods into the United States. They have shaken up global trade and according to the Federal ...
Mighty Patch founder Ju Rhyu
Mar 27, 2026We meet the founder of Hero Cosmetics, the brand behind Mighty Patch, a skin patch that's designed to improve the appearance of acne. Patches like these have become increasingly mainstream. We hear h...
No suits, four-day weeks: Asia's energy crunch
Mar 26, 2026With a state of emergency in the Philippines and a series of four-day working weeks and fuel rationing across many countries, the global energy crisis caused by the war in Iran is wreaking havoc on As...
ICE: Is it chilling the US economy?
Mar 25, 2026Last year, around 4000 federal officers were deployed in Minneapolis in a major immigration crackdown. Local firms say the resulting upheaval and protests didn’t just disrupt local people’s lives, the...
Could the Arctic rewrite global trade?
Mar 24, 2026We explore the potential and the challenges for Arctic shipping. As global warming causes sea ice to retreat, passages are opening up through this vast frozen Arctic Ocean. We explore what these route...
Can Cuba turn its economy around?
Mar 23, 2026Cuba is in the grip of a deep economic crisis. The country’s communist government says it will open up the struggling economy to greater private investment in an effort to tackle it. But will these re...
The struggle to find care that sparked a business
Mar 20, 2026We meet Chika Madubuko, the founder and CEO of Greymate Care, an online platform that connects people that need support with professional caregivers in Nigeria. It’s a business that was born in 2016 a...
Oil crisis lessons from Iran to Kuwait
Mar 19, 2026As the world faces another energy crisis, what can past shocks teach us? We look back at earlier oil crises to understand how conflict has disrupted global supply - and what that means for markets to...
The cost of calling home
Mar 18, 2026If you’re living thousands of miles from home, how do you keep in touch, especially when your loved ones don’t have reliable internet? There’s a growing market across Africa and beyond for apps helpi...
Germany turns to India for skilled workers
Mar 17, 2026Germany is in the throes of a demographic crisis, in which there are not enough young people entering the labour market to replace those who are retiring. There is an annual net loss of 400,000 to th...